Solution to Hockfield Court
The puzzle consists of five clues whose answers (which are in alphabetical order) are ATLAS, EAST, EDEN, HDTV, and WELSH. The puzzle title, the occurrences of "map", "path", and "MIT" in the clues, and the fact that EAST is supposed to be placed east to west, all suggest that we want to place these answers along the five paths that cross through Hockfield Court at MIT:
Perhaps with some trial and error to figure out what "rules" we need to follow when placing these letters, we find that we can place a letter at each intersection so that the five paths spell out the five answers:
Finally, reading the letters at the intersections of the five paths spells out the answer SALTED:
